“Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Sunday, June 30, 2013

TROUBLING ARTICLE IN THE OC REGISTER ABOUT HOW MESA WATER IS SPENDING OUR MONEY ON EXPENSIVE TRAVEL AND FOOD
It's behind the Register pay wall and is dated 6/29, and it's probably in the Current as well.

An important line in the story is that they get away with it because on one is watching them. And, the same can be said of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District.
# # #NIAGRA FALLS: BLACKS ATTACK PUERTO RICAN FAMILY AND PISTOL WHIP MOTHER TRYING TO PROTECT HER SON
You know the drill. Had these been Whites attacking people of another race/ethnicity, weak-seed White libs would be all over TV bemoaning hate. But, since it was Blacks who did this, the story is being localized and not nationalized.

Video.
# # #LIMBAUGH DEMONSTRATES A STUPID STREAK FOUND IN MANY CONSERVATIVES

HERE's an article from THE BLAZE about Rush Limbaugh expressing surprise that many illegal aliens don't want to become U.S. citizens.

Why was Limbaugh surprised? Well, the reasons go deeper than touched upon in the article and go to an ingrained but false belief in the minds of some jingoistic conservatives, such as Limbaugh, that everyone on the planet wants to be an American. This is simply not true. And, those who do want to be citizens of this country usually want it for perceived personal benefits, not because they are patriotic.

Limbaugh's particular screwy mindset often has him saying, in best aracial form, that the reason the U. S. is "great" is because of our "Constitution" and our "freedom." You may also recall that dopey George W. Bush used to say, in a similar vein, that terrorists hated us because of our "freedom."

Saying that America is great because of the Constitution would be a little like saying that the reason a particular cake is good, is not because of the ingredients, but because of the words on the recipe page.

On a local level, you'll hear Wendy Leece saying that "We Costa Mesans are special." This is just another jingoistic variant on the Limbaugh and Bush mindset. You'll also hear some Tea Party types saying things such as "Don't put a hyphen in my name, I'm just an American." Again, this is a variant expression of the same mind set.

Here's the reality in as few words as possible:

1. America is not primarily "great" because of the Constitution, but the Constitution is a secondary factor.
In fact, America may not even be so great these days, but that's for a longer discussion.

At any rate, the reason that America became great was because it was mostly a White country. And, because of historical facts and events those Whites (mostly from England) who founded this country tried to put some protections for citizens against government into the Constitution as the Bill of Rights, and the ideas for these rights weren't the product of any genius of the Founders, they were put there because they corrected some actual and real problems that were current in England with the government having too much power over individuals.

2. Illegal aliens aren't coming here to be Americans. They like being Mexicans. They like their own country. They come here because they can make more money here and get other benefits and many freebies that they may find hard to get in Mexico. Watch any soccer game between Mexico and the U.S. and you'll see most of the stands are full of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans, and you'll see that they cheer almost to the person for Mexico, not the U.S.

Officially or unofficially, if Amnesty passes, we'll have a population of eleven to thirty million people here who will have dual citizenship, and who will be able to dart back and forth across the border to get the best from each country, while present American citizens will not have this luxury.
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Of course, this is complete nonsense. In fact, if one of the usual elements in the definition of species wasn't that members of a species can bear children with all other members, not only would science classify many types of humans into different races but also into different species.# # #BLACK SUSPECT SEEN ATTACKING WHITE WOMAN VIA NANNY CAM HAS BEEN ARRESTED

You can see the video again at the above link. We reported this violent hate crime in a previous edition of the CM PRESS.
# # #SOUTH AFRICA (THE LAND OF THE GREATEST WHITE GENOCIDE AT PRESENT): 13-YEAR-OLD WHITE GIRL SAVES GRANDMOTHER FROM ROBBERY AND POSSIBLE DEATH AT THE HANDS OF A BLACK, BY BEATING HIM WITH A WALKING STICK
Since the advent of Black rule in South Africa, that nation has devolved into a crime ridden sewer like Haiti or Chicago or New Orleans or....
# # #THE PURPOSE AS SEEN IN A DYING PUMPKIN WHOSE LIFE HAS BEEN CUT SHORT

I noticed this morning that the umbilical cord stem of one of the small pumpkins growing in my back yard had accidentally been cut and the pumpkin itself was now shrivelling and dying as it could no longer get nutrients through its umbilical cord stem attached to its mother vine.

So, the small pumpkin--fully formed, and looking just like an adult fully grown pumpkin, just smaller, and clearly a vibrant and healthy pumpkin involved in the life process that is normal and natural to a pumpkin--is now dying and rotting. Its life has been cut short and it can not fulfill its most important purpose; which is the same purpose for all organisms: survive so you can make more like yourself.

And, why would this be the most important purpose of all organisms? I say it is because at the heart of all life is a very basic code within DNA that is programmed to automatically try to fill all of existence with itself, and it does this by constantly tinkering with life to make ever new forms that can go forth and compete for the best seats in the house in all possible conditions where life can somehow find energy and prosper. And, I say that inside every organism of every type is that same very basic code within DNA that is tireless in tinkering with life so that the basic Code may expand within that life to the stars and beyond.

And, I say, further, that the basic code doesn't care which type or form of life expands, because, remember, the basic code is the same in all life, and the basic code is not intelligent and has no will. It is just a simple program that must find a way to overcome all obstacles to spread itself. It does this by changing non basic parts of itself to engineer new forms of life built on earlier forms of life. It never tires and it never stops tinkering in a trial and error basis as it constantly modifies life to find a way to expand forever.

But, the basic code cannot exist outside of organisms, so it must make organisms that survive and expand no matter what conditions they find, or what changes happen in our dynamic universe.

To make organisms that can expand the best, there is a constant and natural competition in organisms to win the struggle to be and to be more and to be that type of organism that is the one that expands its kind and not be the weak ones that are out expanded by other organisms.
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Friday, June 28, 2013

Yup. White violent crime rates are as low as they've ever been--which is very low compared to Blacks--and Black violent crime rates are as high or higher than they've ever been. The difference now, is that Black violent crime isn't being kept in Black communities, but is flooding White communities.

By stopping and frisking the most likely potential perps, you can drive violent crime down. But if you waste your manpower stopping and frisking people less likely to commit violent crimes, you enable more non-White violent criminals.

You have to play the percentages.# # #PALIN SUGGESTS SHE MAY LEAVE THE GOP
She's not alone. We just returned one of those special letters that the GOP sent us (not the usual type, but a smaller more personal letter) asking for more money from us. No, we didn't put any money in the envelope. And, we didn't put a postage stamp on the envelope to save them that expense. We just sent it back with our strongly worded comments letting the out of touch suits know that the GOP no longer represents us and that if a viable third party shows up, we'll be looking at it with an eye to supporting it.

And, about third parties. We had press credentials and covered Ross Perot's convention in Long Beach several years ago for a newspaper back east. After the election, everything fell apart. It was pretty much a one man band. That's the way it is with most third parties. And, most die out when that one man band leaves.

We need a third party that builds from the ground up and runs candidates for every dog catcher election in the nation and builds on that base. Yes, such a party must have some big names at the top of the party in order to get much needed press coverage, but these big names have to stick around to help build the party.
# # #HOW ABOUT THE ENGINES AND TRANSMISSIONS?HERE'S the spec sheet on the six ambulances that the City Council is expected to buy at its July 2, meeting.

The total cost (we think) of the six ambulances will be $ 1,334,314.70.

On the spec sheet, we're told about the mud flaps and the lug nuts, and so on, in great detail.

That's the important stuff, right?

We couldn't find any clearly specified information about those minor things such as the engines and transmissions in the spec sheet, but after doing an Internet search based on the chassis name and model number, we believe that the ambulances will each be built on an International truck chassis and will have one or another of two types of diesel engines (we think). We're not sure if the engines will be the same in all six ambulances (they should be, so you can canibalize parts if needed). We're also not sure about the transmissions, but we believe that they'll be automatic.

Now, if you were the City Council, wouldn't you want information about engines and transmissions in front of you when you make a decision? Mud flaps and lug nuts may look nice, but don't you think information about engines and transmissions might be more important?

Also, we have highly paid mechanics who work for the City. Were any of them asked for their opinions? Remember, once we buy these vehicles we have to fix them.

Here's our point in this. The City Council members all have day jobs. They probably don't have the time, and maybe not the desire, to try to coax out important facts when they're given things to vote on (such as, also, the big computer buy that we wrote about before). Important things such as engines and transmissions should be clearly spelled out so they don't have to guess, and so they can make informed decisions.# # #JESSE JACKSON SAYS PAULA DEEN CAN BE REDEEMED
Yes, that blubbering Deen just has to beg for forgiveness for once upon a time uttering a racial pejorative about a Black who had held a gun to her head. [ Here's our prediction: Watch as Deen soon donates lots of money to Black causes. And, watch as Deen holds cooking classes in inner city schools. Also expect to see her on Oprah's show. Yup. The PR people are out in force on this.]
# # #RAMZPAUL ON RACHEL JEANTEL'S TESTIMONY IN THE GEORGE ZIMMERMAN TRIAL

Note how the authorities can't find a hate crime motive and attribute the attack to the stealing of shoes and Internet fame desired by the Blacks. No mention at all that the attackers were Black and the victim White.

Reverse the races and the usual scumbag weak seed Whites would be marching around with candles and moist eyes while moaning about racial hatred. Where are they when a White is attacked? They're no where to be found.
# # #GLENN BECK MADE MORE THAN OPRAH LAST YEAR
The conservative Beck is getting more powerful as time goes on. This is not what many thought would happen when he left his gig at Fox News.
# # #HEY, CREEPY ASS CRACKERS, READ THIS

While White Paula Deen goes on TV and cries because she once used racial epithets, the Black star witness in the George Zimmerman trial says that "creepy ass cracker," isn't a racial pejorative.

If you are White, you are more likely to be "randomly" violently attacked by a Black than by any other race. Know it and be wary. Always be aware of your surroundings and who is in your surroundings. Don't be a sap.

It makes no more sense to talk about humans without discussing race than it does to talk about dogs without discussing breed.
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Hola, again, short brown persons, and also to you black persons (but this isn't really to you because not enough of you vote to matter), if you go to this RNC site [AQUI] you will be able to read some outreach in Spanish to show you how much we want you people to vote Republican. Yes, we Great White Fathers and Great White Mothers have special links on the RNC website for you short brown people and also for black people.

No, there is no special link for White people. We don't care about them. But, we do want their money, so you will find appeals to Whites as we fleece them to use their own money to replace themselves in the party and the nation with you short brown people and you black people and also some yellow and red people.Our new secret GOP motto is : Take White money, but don't help Whites in any way and try to keep them in the dark, while they are being replaced, by focusing on how evil the Democrats are.Yes, when we elite Great White Fathers and Great White Mothers get together at the country club, we laugh at how easy it is to fool ordinary Whites into paying for the shovels to dig their own graves and then to have them actually dig the graves themselves, jump in, and cover themselves up with dirt.# # #

GREAT WHITE FATHER TELLS LATINOS IN OC THAT THE GOP IS GOING TO PUT ITS MONEY WHERE ITS MOUTH IS AND HAVE A LONG TERM OUTREACH TO THEM[Article about this behind OC REGISTER's pay wall)
Yup, Great White Father Reince Priebus, RNC Chief, fresh in from the country club, even praised that scum bag Marco Rubio (spit) for Rubio's amnesty bill.

Let me translate the Great White Father's comments:

Greetings, short Brown persons, I come from Washington with money to buy your votes. We want you people to vote for us, so forget that stuff about a border. You people share our Republican values of ah, er, valuing values that we will change to get votes. Hey, would you like to date my sister?
The GOP suits, who are almost always out of touch with common people, just don't get it. This pandering is going to turn off lots of White people who Priebus is disrespecting with this crap.

No doubt, the GOP suits just figure they can take the White vote for granted because Whites in the GOP would have a very hard time voting for a Democrat and there is no real third party that stands a chance of winning big elections.

It wouldn't surprise us, however, if a viable third party comes on the scene--one that will do more than just run a presidential candidate and then disappear.

By the way, GOP, I'm not sending you any money to help with your outreach that disrespects and hurts the interests of White people.
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Those receiving these awards then send off press releases to the local newspapers touting their awards. Many in the herd then believe something great has been accomplished.

Here's what the Sanitary District should do instead of just puffing such awards: Get competitive bids on trash hauling.
# # #LINCOLN CLUB NOT WHAT IT ONCE WAS
Instead of standing up for what is right, the once Conservative, but now apparently Neo-Conservative Lincoln Club, wants the local GOP to be the party of what's happening now and has attacked Congressman Dana Rohrabacher because of his stand against giving criminals citizenship.

Now, if Wendy would just get on the side of Costa Mesa citizens who want an improved city, and not a new Santa Ana, we might get some action.

MORE: The above linked story in the Daily Pilot gives the impression that the pro-abortion crowd was the largest group, but the story in the OC REGISTER (behind their pay wall) indicates that the pro-life group far outnumbered the baby killing mob.

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“I TEACH YOU THE SUPERMAN. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man?All beings hitherto have created something beyond themselves: and ye want to be the ebb of that great tide, and would rather go back to the beast than surpass man?What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame.Ye have made your way from the worm to man, and much within you is still worm. Once were ye apes, and even yet man is more of an ape than any of the apes.Even the wisest among you is only a disharmony and hybrid of plant and phantom. But do I bid you become phantoms or plants?Lo, I teach you the Superman!The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman SHALL BE the meaning of the earth!I conjure you, my brethren, REMAIN TRUE TO THE EARTH, and believe not those who speak unto you of super earthly hopes! Poisoners are they, whether they know it or not.Despisers of life are they, decaying ones and poisoned ones themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so away with them!Once blasphemy against God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and therewith also those blasphemers. To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!”

Thursday, June 20, 2013

People aren't fungible. You can't replace all the White people and expect the nation to be as it once was.

Genes are us.

Coulter points out something that I've been writing about for years: The cliche that the U.S. is a nation of immigrants so we must let everyone in.

The fact is that EVERY nation is a nation of immigrants. People have feet and they've been moving around on the planet even before they were truly human.

Distinct peoples who moved onto lands and populated those lands with their kind and who fought to keep those lands for their kind, became the nations we now know. Peoples who moved onto lands and who didn't populate those lands and/or who didn't fight to keep them for their kind, lost those lands.

Rubio's [spit] amnesty scam is a disaster for the U.S.
# # #THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF ALABAMA'S FAILING SCHOOLS
Most of the 74 failing schools are predominantly Black. Any other failing schools have a large Latino population. None of the failing schools are predominantly or even marginally White.

The OC REGISTER is reporting (behind their paywall) that at 7:30 PM, Wednesday, the CMFD put out two fires at the vacant Port Mesa Christian School and Happy Child Preschool located in a former church building in the 600 block of Hamilton Street. It was suggested in the article that the building was serving as a gang hangout, apparently due in part to the graffiti at the location. Some of the graffiti was anti-CMPD in nature.

This is the general location of some of the slums that the CM PRESS has consistently been asking the City Council to get rid of.

The myth is that most homeless people are just folks who have had a bad turn of luck; the reality is that many of them are mentally ill and violent and will snap over very minor perceived wrongs.

The down on their luck myth is often perpetuated by the charities and pathological altruists (suffering from their own brand of neurosis) that want government money to "help" the homeless (and make big salaries for the charity bosses).

Hopefully, Costa Mesa's municipal government will act to keep citizens safe from the ever growing mentally ill homeless population that is being attracted here by charities.
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And, of course, as in most mixed school districts, most of the Whites don't even send their kids to the gang and crime and socially dysfunctional schools they pay for.
# # #FEDERAL STATISTICS SUPPORT STEREOTYPES ABOUT MISCEGENATION
The word "stereotype" is not a synonym for false or prejudiced. Stereotypes are usually based on reality.

White women who engage in it are often overweight and less educated. Or, as we say on the streets: Fat and dumb.
# # #FULLERTON CITY COUNCIL REJECTS HOMELESS SHELTER(story is behind the OC REGISTER's pay wall)
Say, maybe the can put it in Costa Mesa? No, don't even think about it.# # #DAILY PILOT ARTICLE ON THE MUDDLED NUISANCE ORDINANCE
It was clear from the comments from the public and also from the Councilmembers that the proposed changes to our City ordinances presented to the Council and the public last night were confusing and overreaching and too broad in some areas.

Mayor Righeimer once again showed his ability to get to the heart of the matter when he asked that staff come back with a proposal that clearly shows what is new and what is old in the ordinance and is organized so it is less confusing. He also reminded staff of what the Council was looking for in such an ordinance.

Now, we're not sure who has a tin ear on staff, but we think most people understood what the Planning Commission and the Council were trying to do when the subject of the new ordinance came up and staff was directed to come back with language for it

Folks, what the mayor and the other good Councilmembers want is a tool to use so they can legally go after crime infested slums in the city. What they were presented with last night was proposed language that could screw with every homeowner in Costa Mesa for the most minor of things.

As the mayor correctly said at one point last night: "We don't want to be Irvine, but we also don't want to be Wilmington."
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

ROHRABACHER FOR SPEAKER!Yeah, Congressman Rohrabacher!As I've written before, when I was just out of the Marines I lived in Washington, D.C. and I was dating a girl who got a job as the secretary at the national HQ of YAF. As a result, I got to know some of the people in the organization. And, one of the names that kept coming up all the time was that of a rising political light in California named Dana Rohrabacher.Word was that he was a straight shooter and had solid conservative views.Now, according to the above linked article, Congressman Rohrabacher is letting weak sister John Boehner know that his position as speaker may be in trouble if he rolls over on immigration. It's good to see at least one GOP Big--Congressman Rohrabacher--taking a strong stand for the citizens of this country and the rule of law. Maybe he can inject some brains and testosterone into the party.# # #GREAT BRITAIN: TWENTY NON-WHITES SLASH YOUNG WHITE MAN'S FACE IN FRONT OF HIS 5-YEAR-OLD SONDiversity doesn't work in Great Britain either and Whites are increasingly the victims of non-White violent criminals while their weak seed politicians have tea# # #IOWA: BLACK WITH GLASS SHARDS IN GLOVE ATTACKS WHITE FAMILY IN RESTAURANT FOR 'NO REASON'No reason? It was a hate crime, but the police, as usual, are trying to hide that fact.At least this White family is speaking out and is calling it a hate crime instead of hiding in a corner fearing that they'll be called "racists" for telling it like it is.# # #RACISTFUNGUS ATTACKS BLACKS, DOESN'T BOTHER WHITES AS MUCHHow can that be? Isn't race just a social construct?# # #RAMZPAUL ON LINDSEY GRAHAM'S GOP IN 'DEATH SPIRAL' NONSENSEShort video.# # #CHICAGO: MAN DIES AFTER HIS HEAD IS IMPALED ON A FENCE DURING A FIGHTNotice the paper doesn't give a racial description of any of those involved. Do you still wonder why, or do you now understand?# # #NO BABY KILLING AT HOAG--LIB WOMEN TO PROTESTHere's a quote from the above article made by a person affiliated with Planned Parenthood:"I can tell you that the vast majority of abortions can be safely provided in an outpatient setting like at Planned Parenthood...." (emphasis added) "Safely provided?" Not for the babies. They die.Life is a process. It begins at conception and continues on. Those who support abortion try to confuse the public, and don't want people to see that what is destroyed is not just tissue, it is a living human being. The babies that are destroyed have fingers and toes and eyes and ears. They are living beings. It really doesn't matter that they are not fully independent or that they don't have adult consciousness. They are still human beings at a stage of life that is normal for our species.# # #

When I saw the above headline I immediately wondered who the famous Republican was and I was pleased to learn it was none other than our own Dana Rohrabacher.

Marco Rubio (spit) is disgusting. This creep is out for himself and apparently thinks he is some sort of Hispanic savior, who can further destroy any vestiges of White America. He is not for the Republican party, he's for La Raza.

Rubio (spit) is like a guy who calls for releasing all the prisoners in prisons so he can get their votes when he runs for higher office. And, of course, once the prisoners are out of prison, they will get freebies supplied by all the law abiding citizens.
# # #AGENDA FOR TUESDAY'S CITY COUNCIL MEETING# # #

Nice column. I've written as much as minor parts of some of my national columns, but the column linked to above focuses directly on the issue.# # #

GREAT BRITAIN: 14-YEAR-OLD WHITE BOY BADLY HURT IN RACIST ATTACK

The establishment cops there, as they so often do here, are trying to hide the racial nature of the attack.
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WHAT IS A FATHER?

A father of our species is a male who has contributed 23 of his chromosomes to the 23 chromosomes of his female mate to produce a new child who will have 46 chromosomes containing approximately 20,000 genes that are made up of approximately 3.1 billion combinations of the four chemicals of DNA that are abbreviated as A,T,C,G. These 46 chromosomes with their genes are the blueprint for making a human being.

It is the male of our species who contributes most of the mutations that are necessary to ensure that our form of life can adjust to ever changing conditions, and it is for this reason that a healthy male produces new sperm every day up until the time of his death of old age.

Each spermatozoa produced, carries 23 chromosomes of the father. The sperm change with relatively minor changes in the external and internal environments of the male, and just a few degrees of temperature difference in the external environment will cause the male sperm to change as the genetic code he carries tinkers to adjust to the new temperature. The tinkering is often in the form of mutations.

The female of our species gets her eggs all at once and at a fairly early age. They do not change under normal circumstances. The eggs are thus cast in stone so to speak and this provides stability to our species so that the changes that may be made by the sperm, do not happen too fast during temporary changes in world conditions--such as, and just to continue with the example above--temporary temperature changes.

Because of a father and a mother, our species will continue on, and if the male and female have mated wisely, following the dictates of nature to make more like yourself, the particular genetic code that makes the mother and father part of a particular people will also carry on. Like with like is the way.
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First we say we're just going to supply humanitarian aid. Then, we find an excuse to supply arms. Then, we send in troops. Then, the body bags start coming home in the middle of the night to America and grieving parents get crocodile tears from fat cat politicians who pretend they care.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

ARMY DOCTOR SUES BOY SCOUTS ALLEGING SEXUAL ABUSE FROM YEARS AGO WHEN HE WAS A SCOUT[Article is behind the OC REGISTER's pay wall.]
Wait a couple of years and we may see many more law suits given the new pro-gay Scout policy.

What goes on in those tents is probably not going to stay in those tents.
# # #GREAT BRITAIN: NON-WHITE MALES ATTACK WHITE GIRLS
Video of the attack.
# # #LEFTIES UPSET THAT HOAG ISN'T GOING TO CONTINUE KILLING BABIES
If only we had a time machine to go back to when the mothers of these lefties were pregnant and we could talk them into cutting the heads off their babies and sniping their spines or tearing those tiny humans apart, we would not now have to listen to these creeps.

One of these major false premises is the one that is tacitly held by many White people, to wit, that all humans are really White people under different paint jobs and if there are any differences (often seen in statistical analyses of behaviors and capabilities) that it is because of White racism.

As you'll hear and see in the above linked video, immigrants in Sweden don't want to be Swedes (read they don't want to be Whites) and they don't want to be part of Swedish society (read White society). The immigrants have set up their own ghettos and treat any Swedes (again, read Whites) who enter these ghettos as interlopers in these mini non-White little ghetto nations within a nation.

The same thing is happening in Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Ireland and other European nations.

We take a different view. Doing business in California is expensive. Costa Mesa officials should be screaming from the rafters that our City can offset some of those expenses by offering low fees on businesses.

In his above linked column, Harlan tells readers that a former employer of his moved to Costa Mesa because our City isn't too ritzy. Huh? That's a recommendation for a city? Maybe they should have moved to Compton. That's even less ritzy. Who the hell was his former employer--a charity for people with little money?

Harlan apparently knows very little about retail businesses if the general tenor of his column is any clue. So, let me give him a little primer. Most national credit tenants (that's the category we want to attract) live and die based on demographic reports. These reports usually have one, three and five mile rings. Most of these retailers are most interested in the one mile ring which is their primary market area. Why do we want to attract these tenants? One reason is because they're not usually undercapitalized and can stay in business through dry periods when less capitalized businesses go broke.

As we've written before, the CEOs of these national credit tenant businesses don't just fall out of bed one day and throw a dart at a map to find a new location. They know which of their stores are high performing and which are underperforming. And, they know the demographics of these stores. So, when they want to expand, and most always want to expand, they look for demographics most like their high performing stores.

Thus, if what they sell is popular with people of a certain ethnicity, with a certain education level, who make a certain amount of money, they look for locations with a high number of people in that category within their primary market area.

Now, a City is improving when you see retailers come in who are a little more ritzy (yes, Harlan, I wrote ritzy) and not less so. In Costa Mesa, we've seen a transformation of East 17th Street as more ritzy retailers have replaced less ritzy ones. And, this has added to the general upscaling of the whole of the Eastside as more young professionals move there.

So, one might ask: Do the upscale retailers come because of an upscale population or does the upscale population come because of the upscale retailers? No chicken or egg conundrum here, folks, because it actually works both ways, and once it starts it becomes a symbiotic thing.

Harlan lives on the now somewhat ritzy Eastside. If he likes things less ritzy, he can certainly move to the Westside--say around some of the charities.

As we've written before, and which some in local government also understand, Costa Mesa must compete with other cities for the best retailers and the best residents. We don't compete successfully if we have a mindset that praises our city for being less ritzy and with higher fees on business.